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[MikeSB]

I'm not posting again on this site as its totally useless and not fit for purpose!

[OzMozz]

I could tell that Crewe had lost just by the number of replies to this post.

[MikeSB]

The problem is not the number of posts mate,...Its the plain fact is that we pay coaches and non players over one million pounds PER season and they have no idea about how to play football. For a team to go for 96 minutes and have two direct attempts on goal demonstrate that very clearly. Their goal was scored because there were too many players in the 6 yard box...AGAIN! The GK did not save the shot and he pushed the ball out to one of their players who scored. Was that incompetent goal keeping by a young man that should never be playing professional football at that age..BUT we would rather sign players on low wages than to pay for decent ones who would come here given the chance!

We have three managers and more managers and coaches and has been said the junior teams are useless and so what is going on? Does the Chairman and Board of Directors ever get the manager in and ask him WTF is going on when they have just had two shots at goal and nearly 500 passes to one another...

I think most of these people have never ever played this game ever..

For just three posts on here tells me the fans could not give a fck either..

[Timmy58]

The problem is not the number of posts mate,...Its the plain fact is that we pay coaches and non players over one million pounds PER season and they have no idea about how to play football. For a team to go for 96 minutes and have two direct attempts on goal demonstrate that very clearly. Their goal was scored because there were too many players in the 6 yard box...AGAIN! The GK did not save the shot and he pushed the ball out to one of their players who scored. Was that incompetent goal keeping by a young man that should never be playing professional football at that age..BUT we would rather sign players on low wages than to pay for decent ones who would come here given the chance!

We have three managers and more managers and coaches and has been said the junior teams are useless and so what is going on? Does the Chairman and Board of Directors ever get the manager in and ask him WTF is going on when they have just had two shots at goal and nearly 500 passes to one another...

I think most of these people have never ever played this game ever..

For just three posts on here tells me the fans could not give a fck either..

I genuinely think this site is quiet for two reasons. In order, reason number 1 is that many are tired of responding to the same repetitive line trotted out every time we lose a match and if the advice were followed by the club it would find itself dropping down the leagues faster than you could say "I told you so". The other reason is that the site seems more difficult to access these days and I can't always be arsed with the struggle. But because people aren't engaging on the site does not equate to them not, as you put it, "giving a fck". That is an offensive suggestion. I have been supporting the club for the greater part of 50 years and seen some real dross. It is, while not always being brilliant, a hell of a lot better these days than it was back then. However, I ain't getting into a pointless debate about coaching versus non coaching as I have a life.

[MikeSB]

I genuinely think this site is quiet for two reasons. In order, reason number 1 is that many are tired of responding to the same repetitive line trotted out every time we lose a match and if the advice were followed by the club it would find itself dropping down the leagues faster than you could say "I told you so". The other reason is that the site seems more difficult to access these days and I can't always be arsed with the struggle. But because people aren't engaging on the site does not equate to them not, as you put it, "giving a fck". That is an offensive suggestion. I have been supporting the club for the greater part of 50 years and seen some real dross. It is, while not always being brilliant, a hell of a lot better these days than it was back then. However, I ain't getting into a pointless debate about coaching versus non coaching as I have a life.

Let me ask you a very simple question.

This club spends over one million pounds on the academy and managers and coaches and non players...So how come despite all that money spent on virtually non playing staff, can we only manage two direct shots at goal and have well over 400 passes between our players?

I have watched this club well over 70 years and to me the standard of football today is poor compared with previous decades. You need to get a life to realise that if you cannot manage a couple of direct shots on goal, then you have failed miserably. If you can call what we do is coaching, then I think you have lost the plot of what football was invented to do and that was to ATTACK the opposition's goal in order to score goals not to have almost all of the team defending the team, which is not working anyway and to me a fan spending big money on going to away games, is being cheated by the ethos of the club by calling us a 'development' club, when for over 100 years it certainly was not! IMO its not offensive to call not giving a fck when the word is possibly the only word that fits...

There were no academies and coaches for over 100 years and so answer the second question which is...Why doo we need them now?

[jimmyboldon]

I genuinely think this site is quiet for two reasons. In order, reason number 1 is that many are tired of responding to the same repetitive line trotted out every time we lose a match and if the advice were followed by the club it would find itself dropping down the leagues faster than you could say "I told you so". The other reason is that the site seems more difficult to access these days and I can't always be arsed with the struggle. But because people aren't engaging on the site does not equate to them not, as you put it, "giving a fck". That is an offensive suggestion. I have been supporting the club for the greater part of 50 years and seen some real dross. It is, while not always being brilliant, a hell of a lot better these days than it was back then. However, I ain't getting into a pointless debate about coaching versus non coaching as I have a life.

Point 2. I (unfortunately) don?t have any problems with access.
Point 1. Totally agree. It?s so tedious. I too am a veteran of 50plus years and have seen some dross.
The only possible way Mikes tactics would work, is if every team player the same system as but they won?t, so we would drop like a stone.

[MikeSB]

Point 2. I (unfortunately) don?t have any problems with access.
Point 1. Totally agree. It?s so tedious. I too am a veteran of 50plus years and have seen some dross.
The only possible way Mikes tactics would work, is if every team player the same system as but they won?t, so we would drop like a stone.

It's boring but if the principle is valid, so is the tedious replies. Would you get Jimmy Greaves or the manager of Swindon to change their views as they are the same as mine?

The problem why it sounds tedious is simple. This site should have at least a hundred fans posting and there is virtually none and so what else are 9000 fans doing after each match?

Thing is, I was a professional chartered railway engineer and my job was to analyse problems and then suggest solutions. Fans here offer nothing apart from a couple of others. I despise losing matches and more so by 1-0 when the manager insists on playing formations that are based wholly on defence and like having five players at the back including the GK and so what is he trying to do? Win by the odd goal? Are 9000 fans turning up and paying 20 odd quid to see our team pissing about with 500 passes of the ball and lots of them going to the opposition as well. And then hopefully having one shot or no shots on goal? I mean who trains these amateurs to manage football clubs. And believe it or not we are fourth divsion. ie the bottom of the professional leagues despite us spending what? 10 million pounds over the last ten seasons??

I cannot believe our board of Directors can be happy about our standard of play and do nothing about it month on month. I would have LB in the boardroom the next day, asking him what the hell is going on and then give him notice to change things or else!

Fans are deluded to think we would drop like a stone if we changed things back to how football SHOULD be played. How about changing the corners and having four strikers in the team? How about trying it out? Oh sorry we haven't got the players as we signed all defenders...etc etc..

We have existed for well over 100 years and it is boring to say that in all that time we never went out of the league and had some very good seasons and some very poor ones as well. Carlisle had ten thousand fans watching them play in the National League a few weeks ago and so its not a disaster to try things new and then adjust accordingly. But unfortunately football managers and coaches are not the brightest people about and they go with the status quo whatever that is..Change the corners? God, no, we may save a goal here and there or score a few more, we can't have that, can we....

I cannot understand how we could play so well against Tranmere away and then blow it the next couple of games? Is that the players or the management? Over to you and you have nothing else better to do and so think of solutions instead of being brain absenteism!

[gazan]

It needs to be pointed out that the Alex are in League 2 and as such, players can be inconsistent. Also our coaching staff are League 2 so are probably not as great as Real Madrid's coaching staff. Nobody is suggesting that all coaches are equal and therefore results might reflect this. Just saying, against my better judgement.

[MikeSB]

It needs to be pointed out that the Alex are in League 2 and as such, players can be inconsistent. Also our coaching staff are League 2 so are probably not as great as Real Madrid's coaching staff. Nobody is suggesting that all coaches are equal and therefore results might reflect this. Just saying, against my better judgement.

No, we are a FOURTH division club, not L2 whatever they want to call it..

We used to play Bournemouth, Crystal Palace, Brentford, and some others who are in the PL and we are still Fourth Division and why is that? We sold our best players, we pay the lowest wages in the four leagues?

No matter what the level of coaching, the principle of playing five at the back and one striker is so stupid, its unbelievable..ManU cat do much nowadays and so is that the players are not good enough or the manager isn't?

Anyone can change the system of playing for a few games but if we haven't got the players ie Strikers, then who can we blame for that? The manager or the Board?

[OzMozz]

We used to play Workington Town, Southport, Halifax ……